{"id":2732,"date":"2017-05-04T17:09:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T00:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2017-05-08T17:02:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T00:02:53","slug":"martinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2017\/05\/04\/martinet\/","title":{"rendered":"Martinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>He enters the classroom on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>They ignore him, will not be silent as he speaks, chatting about the weekend, this and that, cocooned in subcultures he would not understand.<\/p>\n<p>He cannot break in to quell their energy, bend them to his will, force the curriculum upon them, teach them \u2018respect,\u2019 nor corral them down the narrow path his life has taken.<\/p>\n<p>He would beat them if he could but, thwarted by laws he would repeal, he can only shout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShut up! Listen!\u201d he bawls, getting their attention, momentarily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d one of them simply asks.<\/p>\n<p>He has no reply.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Ian Fletcher<\/p>\n<p>Born and raised in Cardiff, Wales, Ian has an MA in English from Oxford University. He has had poems and short stories published in The Ekphrastic Review, Tuck Magazine, 1947 A Literary Journal, Dead Snakes, Schlock! Webzine, Short-story.me, Anotherealm, Under the Bed, A Story In 100 Words, Poems and Poetry, Friday Flash Fiction, and in various anthologies.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He enters the classroom on Monday morning. They ignore him, will not be silent as he speaks, chatting about the weekend, this and that, cocooned in subcultures he would not understand. He cannot break in to quell their energy, bend them to his will, force the curriculum upon them, teach them \u2018respect,\u2019 nor corral them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6012,6015,290,41,4773,6011,2921,1973,5225,6013,6014],"class_list":["post-2732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-classroom","tag-curriculum","tag-energy","tag-guest-contributor","tag-ian-fletcher","tag-martinet","tag-morning","tag-path","tag-respect","tag-subcultures","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2733,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions\/2733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}